National Magazine Award. List of awards Canada Council for the Arts: "The Marquise Skull Affair," (Creative Writing Grant), 2007 Canadian National Magazine Award: "For Better or Worse?" (Nominee, Best Essay), 2006 Canada Council for the Arts: "The Politics of Bones," (Creative Writing Grant), 2001 Canadian National Magazine Award: "The politics of bones," (Nominee, Best Profile), 2001 Canadian National Magazine Award: "Moving target," (Nominee, Best Technology Article), 2001 Canadian National Magazine Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (Nominee, Best Profile), 2000 James H. Carter Award, 1999 Mark Bastien Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (Best Article), 1999 AJEMC Award: "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness," (silver), 1999 Gordon Sinclair Award, 1998 Chinese Community Award, 1998 Women's Press Club of Toronto Award, 1998 Poets & Writers' Jean Paiva Award:"Best New Writer," 1993 As Tim Beiser Governor General's Award, Children's Literature Illustration (Nominee) 2009 & 2013 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award 2010—Children's Picture Book of the Year (Nominee) Ontario Library Association's 2010 Forest of Reading, Blue Spruce Award (Nominee) Canadian Toy Testing Council, Top 10 Books of the year 2010. Chocolate Lily Book Awards 2010-2011, Picture book (Nominee) References External links Official Website 1959 births American expatriate writers in Canada American emigrants to Canada Canadian male short story writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian children's writers Canadian gay writers Journalists from Toronto Living people Naturalized citizens of Canada Writers from Los Angeles Writers from Toronto Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Rocky Mountain College alumni Canadian LGBT dramatists and playwrights Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights American gay writers Gay dramatists and playwrights